Self Reflection

To tackle my goals this semester I needed to have a clear focus. Tackling my goals this semester has made me a stronger dancer. From the start of the semester, I have wanted to work on the continuation of my goals from the previous semester. In each class I have worked on finding ways to work on my goals anyway possible. Reflecting my work from the beginning of the semester until now, I have seen myself wanting to be more dedicated to my goals each class. The goals I had for the semester helped me to progress and I continue to work on the ones I struggle with. By having a strong work ethic and clear focus I have had a chance to work on all my main goals throughout the semester: musicality, fluidity, tension, staying lifted in the core, and confidence.

This is my end of year grade 12 culminating self protariate. The project was to create two self portraits but to have them on one page. Initially, I did not expect myself to finish before school ended due to how long it took me to complete it last year. But by reflecting on what happened last year with my lack of time I was able to change my techniques up to fit the time span.

I am currently a student at the University of Texas at San Antonio for almost a whole semester now. I came to this school straight out of high school, not knowing what I was getting myself into. During my high school years, I was good at every subject except my writing class. Coming to UTSA, I knew I was going to struggle in my writing class, but that didn’t discourage me from not trying my best in the course. Going through the English program, I realized that I have some strengths and weaknesses in the class, and it encouraged me to do better. The essays I have written for this class demonstrate that I have developed a strong thesis, organization skills, and detail; however, I still need to improve on grammar, keeping the POV, and citing.

Self-reflection is one of the most challenging aspects of writing. Rationalizing why I deserve the Top Graduate award is a humbling task, but I feel as though I can present a strong argument. Consequently, the goal of this essay is to inform the board of my journey at Park University. My selection to compete for this award has been an honor in itself, and will do my best to give you my credentials. However, before I begin, I will lay out a concise background on myself to help you understand a little about who I am.

Overall, I would classify myself as a generally healthy person. After going through the reading from the chapter, I can identify that some of these healthy characteristics are benefits of my environment and family history, while others have been established based off of promoting personal health. I know I personally avoid risk behaviors whenever possible, including smoking, using drugs, eating unhealthy foods, and consuming alcohol. Moreover, I take many preventative measures thanks to having a health education and knowing my family history, such as performing breast cancer checks and wearing sunblock daily.

Social work education enables professionals to explain and define clients’ experiences, problems, and issues. The levels are micro, mezzo, and macro. For example, the micro level consists of age, gender, income, health, spirituality, emotions, and cognitions. The mezzo level includes neighbors, co-workers, local economy, resources, church, family, and work. The macro level refers to politics, economics, community, culture values, history, government services and resources, discrimination, and oppression (Rogers, 2016). Social workers use these levels to conceptualize clients’ problems (Rogers, 2016). These external analysis, overlaps and interact with each

I always thought of myself as a fairly talented writer. Throughout the years from elementary school to highschool I have always found it easy to write. With that in mind, I came into this class thinking that I was gonna float right through it and it would be easy. I never had though about how much more there was to learn and how much I could improve my writing. I have learned many valuable skills such as researching credible information, using critical thinking and rhetorical strategy, writing mechanics, analyzing and disproving counter-arguments, addressing specific audiences, and using peer editing in my writing process. With my progress throughout this class, I have developed into an exceptional writer which will

During the presentation, the team adapted the demonstration method inside of welcoming, did not perform encouragement for the audience to join the movie night and help out the charity. The plain slides style did not provide secure engagement and visual appeal. Ticketing system explanation was made

Reflection is not only about pondering over past event and related to it emotions, actions, thoughts, or approaches, but also about interpreting everything for the purpose of learning from it and understanding it better. Reflection shall help individuals to challenge themselves, their behaviors, and feelings. The aim is to be more critical about own experiences and own persona, to think about person’s strong and weak sides (Paterson, & Chapman, 2013). To reflect on my feelings, thoughts and work during this module, the Gibbs’s (1998) Reflective cycle helped me a lot. It is made of 6 stages: Description – ‘What happened?’, Feelings – ‘What was I feeling and thinking?’, Evaluation – ‘What was good and bad about the experience?’, Analysis –

Self-reflection; defined as the capacity to exercise introspection, and willingness to learn more about one's fundamental nature and purpose, has become a recognised aid in personal progression. Providing us with a subjective view on how we gain our accomplishments, equally, how we overcome obstacles faced in the process (Mezirow,1990). Zimmerman (2002) suggests it is necessary to analyse our behaviour to consider our strengths while attempting to understand our weaknesses. Given, when correctly utilised such practice encourages us to strive towards our desires. As a result of such studies, self-reflection is encouraged throughout society as an aid to support our advancement in a range of areas; personally; in education; business and mental health; cognitive learning therapy, are just some of the areas self-reflection is propagated. Notably, there can be an uncomfortable feeling around ‘self-reflection’ however; this is a process that on an unconscious level the human being applies thousands of times a day. Although, when one is not aware, they do so without being able to reason with their judgement, in turn, not providing the guidance necessary to apply ourselves appropriately. Therefore, many studies support the need to consciously reflect in multitudinous areas of our lives on a regular basis. (Grant, Franklin, & Langford, 2002). Throughout this essay I shall focus on self-reflection to plan my career, how when applied, I have found it beneficial in the past and

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure” by Colin Powell. This school year, I have my ups and downs both academically and personally, from taking many tests like the AP exams, and SAT, to some of my family members dying. Both of these were such hard activities that I had to go through. This year, I have become a better person, both inside and outside of school, and improved my character from all the events that have happened.

At 16, I was threatened, abused and sexually assaulted by someone close to me. At 19, I experienced a severe car accident and lived with a suicidal roommate with bipolar disorder that did not take her medication regularly. At 20, I was burglarized by a roommate with antisocial personality disorder. At 22, my fiancé died due to an artillery explosion. At 23, after requesting an inspection of home health hazards, was removed from the lease and became homeless. At 24, I became a victim of wage theft by my employer. I gained the strength and courage to be my own voice and become an advocate for others and myself in hardship. I have known pain but I have also known love and my perceived failures became a catalyst for reinvention.

When I registered for this course I did not know what to expect from the title of the class – Arts and Sciences in the Workplace. In my opinion, the information and material I obtained within the span of two months was exceptionally helpful. Without hesitation, I recommend this course to anyone who may feel they need to brush up on their professionalism. Individuals who are undecided in which major to select could find this course useful. Overall, the materials I inserted in my portfolio are representations of concepts I felt that would best benefit me in the professional world.

degree in fourth grade. Unfortunately, I experienced a great deal of confliction when I was faced with these feelings do the Jehovah's Witness teachings that physical attraction, specifically thoughts they deemed “unclean” was a sin and such feelings may lead to a path resulting in everlasting death. Furthermore, as these feelings intensified as I grew into adolescents, the accompanying guilt and shame also intensified. Upon reflection, it is not difficult to ascertain what drove my friends to commit offenses resulting in their disfellowshipping and how as a youth I grew very angry and ending in my being disfellowshipped as well. Now, I am thankful I was disfellowshipped as the experience lead me to explore the world in a way I would have likely never done had I stayed involved in the Jehovah Witness religion. Conversely, the experience of losing all my friends, mentors, support system, and role models I was brought up with, led me to experience some of the most difficult years of my life.

Recently, I have been on a journey of self-discovery, trying to find my own personal beliefs in life. Within this Philosophy class, we have discussed the existence of God(s) and the soul, which has made me even more curious as to my stance regarding this topic. I have adapted the “Religio Original” which to Europeans and the Greek represents the beliefs and customs of the original religion of that country, dating back to the time of Zeus and the titans. This is a Polytheist religion, believing in hundreds of Gods and Goddesses and deities. When looking through different philosophical points regarding this topic I have found Homer’s Odyssey to be most likely correlated with my belief system. Although there is no exact doctrine to follow within this religion as there is within more “mainstream” religions, there are certain beliefs that are common and well versed. To me, the Underworld is an important place in which soul’s journey to be “reset” for the soul to return to this plane and continue its duties until each one is complete, which may take the being many attempts to succeed. Recently, scientists also have discovered evidence concluding that as the body dies, the soul returns to the Universe to later be reunited with a “meat suit” and return to Earth.